Manchester, New Hampshire – The Cradle of Coaches

TOPICS:Chip Kelly Dan Mullen Ryan Day Tony Triciani

manchester cradle of coaches

Posted By: Jeff Fisher April 15, 2020

I want to thank Roger Brown for a great trivia question today on our social media platforms. Surprisingly, until Roger DM’d me on Twitter on Tuesday, I didn’t know about this cool fact.

Here’s the question…

Here’s a great trivia question to wake-up your brains this morning ?Four current D1 coaches — one in the SEC, one in the Pac-12, one in the Big Ten and one in the CAA (FCS) — played high school football in the same New England city. Name them and the city? pic.twitter.com/Vnn4aH8rs7
— High School Football America (@HSFBamerica) April 15, 2020

And here are the answers…

Manchester, New Hampshire is the town. The city of about 115,000 is the hometown to Ohio State’s Ryan Day, UCLA’s Chip Kelly, Florida’s Dan Mullen and Elon’s Tony Triciani.

Day and Kelly played at Manchester Central. Mullen played his high school football at Trinity and Trisciani played at Manchester Memorial.

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Jeff Fisher

Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.